caa a22 4500 467938296 CHVBK 20180406153004.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10936-005-9002-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10936-005-9002-7 Language Acquisition is Language Change [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Crain, Takuya Goro, Rosalind Thornton] According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-German are as unsurprising as similarities between cousins who have never met. By contrast, experience-based approaches to language acquisition contend that child language matches the input, with nonadult forms being simply less articulated versions of the forms produced by adults. This paper reports several studies that provide support for the theory of Universal grammar, and resist explanation on experience-based accounts. Two studies investigate English-speaking children's productions, and a third examines the interpretation of sentences by Japanese speaking children. When considered against the input children are exposed to, the findings of these and other studies are consistent with the continuity hypothesis, which supposes that child language can differ from the language spoken by adults only in ways that adult languages can differ from each other. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 child language nationallicence learnability nationallicence continuity hypothesis nationallicence language acquisition nationallicence Universal Grammar nationallicence medial-wh questions nationallicence parameters nationallicence semantics nationallicence subset principle nationallicence why-questions nationallicence disjunction nationallicence Crain Stephen Macquarie centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia aut Goro Takuya University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, USA aut Thornton Rosalind Linguistics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/1(2006-01-01), 31-49 0090-6905 35:1<31 2006 35 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-005-9002-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-005-9002-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crain Stephen Macquarie centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goro Takuya University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thornton Rosalind Linguistics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/1(2006-01-01), 31-49 0090-6905 35:1<31 2006 35 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer